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Offense Disappointing In 3-0 Loss

Anthony Ressa (left) and Jared Barber (2) bring down the runner. - Photo by James Barringer
By Brian Pitts - So much for a tune-up win with heavyweights Page and West Rowan looming around the corner. Davie’s varsity football team suffered an upset loss that nobody saw coming here Friday. Unheralded Alexander Central converted a 39-year field goal with 10:50 to play and left the War Eagles shellshocked, 3-0.
As odd as the final score looked on the board and in Saturday morning papers, it looked like a masterpiece to the win-starved Cougars, who are better known for their softball powerhouse. They went 4-7 and missed the playoffs a year ago. It’s a moment folks in Taylorsville will talk about for years.
On the dark side of the field, shock, anger, disappointment and disbelief defined the postgame War Eagles.
“It’s going to surprise a lot of people not in just Taylorsville, but in North Carolina,” Alexander Central’s third-year coach, Tom Harper, said. “People didn’t think this little country town of Taylorsville could come to Davie County and beat them at their place and hold them to nothin’. They had a good game plan, but we came to play and did a great job.”
Davie coach Doug Illing commented inside a somber locker room ... subscribe to the Davie County Enterprise Record, P.O. Box 4639, Salisbury, N.C. 28145.

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